leroy00
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For some reason, I am getting strange characters when looking at the architechts' page on DROD.net. Interestingly, it is only in those articles written by Red Hawk, (here) as far as I can tell. Mostly it's just that apostrophes are shown as "’" and double quotes are shown as "â€", but there are a few others. Not a big deal, but rather confusing, and it makes the page hard to read. I'm browsing with Mozilla unter Win2K. I haven't bothered to check if the problem also exists under IE.

--leroy

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eytanz
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I get the same problem on IE under WinXP.

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Schik
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I went ahead and fixed these. Matt - I suppose you'll need to download Hawk's two toolkits so your local copy matches.


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Mattcrampy
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This is a problem caused by people writing in Word. I mostly catch it, but a few things slip my attention.

The two bundles of special characters are in fact the Unicode equivalent of Word's smart quotes. I copy and paste your text into DROD.net's CMS, and then clean off all the extra formatting I can find. Red Hawk's escaped my notice.

If you decide to write an Architect's Toolkit, we can get around this compulsion of Word's by saving it as a plain text file or as basic HTML (<b>, <i>, <a>, <img>, those sorts of tags). I'll restore all your formatting.

Matt

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DiMono
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And this is why TextPad is the best text editor ever

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